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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20
THE ADVANTAGES OF INDIANAPOLIS

It is pleasant for a business man who goes
away from home to find tLat the city Of his
residence is honorably mentioned abroad; that
its merits and attractions are recognized and
that shrewd and experienced persons who are
in the habit of studying current events are ac-
cordlng it front place in the march of prog
ress. This is the case with Indianapolis at
present. 1t has not been for some years past.
There is no denying the fact that Indianapo-
lis stock was below par for good while. The
wild initiation that prevailed during the specu-
lative period from 1870 to 1873, and the terri
on its back. A long period of depression fol-
flowed, in which a series of bank fail
ures and other disasters caused matters
to 60 from bad to worse. Indian
apolis was in the trough of the
sea, could make no Roadway in the slough
of despond, and could not get out. The city
got bad name 1t was spoken of a dead
city, a whipped city, place devoid of public
spirit and enterprise, a good place to
keep away from, etc. We can af-
ford TO recall LneS0 innings low, because
they are past and gone. We can even afford
to admit there was some foundation for all
that was said. For number of years India
napolis was, to all appearances, a very dead
town. In reality it was not dead, but it was
awfully sound asleep. Sometimes, however.
sleep is the best medicine, and it seems to
have been so in this case The city has had a
long sleep and is the better for it. 1t las
turned over, yawned, stretched itself, rubbed
its eyes and is now wide awake. 1t feels like
a giant refreshed. Dead, did you say9 It is
Just beginning to live. A whipped cityf 1t
hasn't begun to fight yet. The old Indianapo-
lis was dead in financial trespasses
and sins, in debts and mortgages and
promises to pay. The new Indianapolis is
redeemed, regenerated and disenthralled,
strong in the freedom Of a new life and happy
in the assurance of prosperous future. Dur
ing the last ten years when Indianapolis was
mentioned abroad it was only to be sneered at
or damned with faint praise. Sometimes men
would 60 so far as to admit that it was "a pleas
ant place of residence" but that was the ex-
tent. 1t was no place to do l1siness. 1t had
no future All this is changed now. Indian
apolis is talked about in very different strain
from what it has been in years past II IS
! now recognized as thoroughly live city q
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20
CA,TEMO.


Mrs Helen Hunt jackson, in her interest
ing novel Ramona" gives some striking in
stances of cruelty and injustice practiced
towards the Indians by whites The instances
were drawn from real life and some of them
were very graphic in their details of stolen
lands elected tenants, scattered families and
widening trails of oppression and wrong.
Most of these outrages originated in the greed of
white land spectators and avaricious border
ruffians, who coveted the Indians lands and
to their schemes. Generally the officers of the
law were only too ready to assist in despoiling
the Indian, and, if the latter attempted to
appeal to the authorities at Washington, a way
was found to suppress his protest and consum-
mate the robbery with neatness and dispatch.
Many Indian wars, bloody massacres, and
long-continued fe ds have had their origin in
such outrages I1 is no credit to us that SIM
liar outrages are practiced in Mexico, but it
shows that injustice toward the Indian is not
peculiarly an American crime. The story of
Caiemo, chief Of the Yaqui and Mayo Indians,
of Sonora, Mexico, who has just been shot to
death by the Mexican authorities is in point.
Caiemo, though full-blooded Indian, was
man of superior intelligence patriot of high
order, and beloved by his tribes. The Yaquis
and Mayos inhabited the mountain districts
of Sonora. For many years Cajemo ruled
over them with W sdom. They were happy
-. l.. L.. l.
herds and gold. They had three churches,
were intelligent, thrifty and Industrious.
These conditions excited the cupidity of some
Mexican land Spectators just as similar con-
ity of American land spectators. About
three years age these fellows attempted to APP
propriate a large portion of the territory be-
longing to the Indians. The latter, with
their crude ideas of vested rights
and private ownership in land, objected.
The spectators lodged complaint against
the Indians. Cajemo was summoned to
Guaymas by the state authorities of Sonora
to show cause why he and his people should
not bs elected from their lands. He refused
to go, but sent word that if they wanted to
see Cajemo they must come to him. A de-
tachment of Mexican troops destroyed Cafe
mos home and violated his wife and two
daughters Cajemo escaped to the mountains.
The Mexican troops invaded the Yaqui and
Mayo territory, and for more than two years
war was waged between these Indians and the
Mexican troops, the latter always meeting
with defeat A short tine ago the troops
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20
THE EPISCOPAL COLOR LINE.

It is generally understood that If the breth-
rem of the Episcopal Church are more fully
agreed upon one thing than another, outside
Of politics with their religion is to be counte-
nanced. 1t has even been said by some, who
we're, perhaps, not fully informed on the sub
ject, that there was some thought of incorpo-
rating this article of faith into the creed ITSELF
However this may be, it is certain that moth
ing causes such a chill of horror to church
man as the utterance of political sentiment
from the pulpit. 1t seems, though, that this
squeamishness has its limits, and that the
brethren, when occasion requires, have no
hesitancy in adopting political methods in the
management of their affairs The
South Carolina Episcopalians for instance,
object to the admission of the negro
to the church convention on the ground that
body. This is precisely the same view taken
by the white politicians of South Carolina
when they exclude the colored voter from the
polls-if permitted to exercise his political
than is agreeable to his ex- masters. To say
nothing of the quality of religion involved in
each of thpse propositions, it must be admit
ted that the degree of imbecility and short
sightedness can hardly be increased. If the
negroes exist in such numbers in the State
and in the church that representation will
give them control, the supposition that they
can be permanently kept down by the white
mans decree is one of the marvellous hallu-
cinations which beset the Southern people,
and from which it seems likely that they can
be freed only by bitter experience. This
government is founded upon liberty of the in
dividual and equal representation, and, if the
tenets of the Episcopal church are to be be-
leved, all men are equal before God. Even
in South Carolina the time must come when
both politicians and churchmen must give
practical acknowledgement and support to
these truths.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20

part. as ''ire' or ''police" call, if sent in
twice, will bring prompt response from
those departments. The false alarm sent in
over. the District box on Tuesday is being
vigorously investigated, and the party who
that he broke the city ordinance governing
fire alarms, and may have to pay dearly for
his fun. The fire" and police" calls on the
District compapy's boxes public con-
venience and the abuse in using them for
these calls will not be tolerated by the city or
the District company.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20

withdrew. Cajemo surrendered himself to
the Mexican authorities in the interest of his
people, that they might be allowed to return
to their farms. By the terms of surrender
his life was to be spared and his people no
longer molested. Notwithstanding the terms,
as soon as he was in the power of the Mexi-
cans he was taken by force of soldiers ard
treacherousy shot in the presence of his pep
pie. Cajemo was patriot, and his death was
a cold blooded murder The story is COM
panion piece to many that have been enacted
on American soil.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20

e., the Editor of the Indianapolis journal:
Does the stock law passed by she last Leeisla-
ture include incorporated towns2 If so, who has
the power TO enforce it! The marshal says he
has no authority. and we have no road supervi-
sor in the town corporation; then how the
law have effect hereg J. S. N.
The law applies only to country districts. and
does not interfere with other laws regulating
live stock running at large. It is only when the
County Commissioners have passed orders
restricting the running at large of live stock that
the supervisor can act. Incorporated towns can
control the matter for themselves under the old
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20
Admit the Bearer and Barer.

In answer to a question of my own. the Queen
said that crops in the Sandwich Islands were
looking we'll and that garden truck was far in adj
vance of what she saw here
She said that they had pie-plant in her garden
big enough to eat before she came away. ana
new potatoes were big as walnuts. Still,
she is enjoying herself here irst-rate, and says
she sees many pleasing features about New
York which will decorate the tablets OF her
memory.
=. I thanked her for this neat little compliment
and told her should always regard her In the
same manner
then wrote little impronptu stanza In her
autograph album, wrung her MaJestys hand
and retired with another suppliant and crouch
ing bow, which indicated contrite spirit. Dut
was calculated to deceive.
I took the liberty of extending to her Majesty
the freedom of the city, and asked her to visit
our pressrooms and see us squat our burning
thoughts into quarter of million copies OF
the paper, and all for cents
I also asked her to come up any time and read
our Hawaii exchanges, for l know how lonely
anybody can be in great city sometimes, and
how yearns for glimpse OF his country
paper.
The Queen is well paid while she reigns, and
standing idly in the umbrella rack at home and
a large pink mosquito net thrown over the
throne. her pay is still going on night and day.
The above is substantially all that SAID our
ing tho interview, though the Queen said some
thing as I came out of the room, escorted by the
janitor, which did not quite CATCH
I did say, however. Just before leaving the
room, that | regretted sincerely the unfortunate
time of the year at which her Majesty had de-
cided to visit US. it being rather between hay
and grass as it were, for as there was no IN the
month it was little TOO late for missionaries
and little too early for watermelons.
It was only an instant later that Joined tho
ianitor at the foot of the stairs.
This evening the Queen will visit the Casino
and see Mr.. Wilson try for the three hundred
and eighty second time to restrain the flowing
leg of his green plush pantaloons. BILL NYE
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20

IT cost Boston $50, 900 to entertain Queen
Kapiolani and her suite with trips down the
bay big dinners and the like; and now some
members Of the City Council who were not in
yited to join in the festivities and failed to
get any pie are making a fuss about it. They
are unkind enough to remark that $50, 200
ought to be enough to cover the city's bills of
entertainment for the Queen of England and
Empress of India should she honor the place
with a visit. This calculation seems to be
based on the theory that the more territory
royalty rules over the more it is to be honored
Figuring on this basis. Kapiolani's entertain
sbillings.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20

Kokomo te-Tribune.
A lively controversy is now raging in Indian
apolis on the subject of natural-gas supply for
that city Realizing the Importance of speedy
action, q large number of her people favor the
granting of a franchise to corporation now
seeking the right OF supplying the city. The
business Of piping gas to the city from the near
est points now available is stupendous un-
dertaking. All admit that it will require
the Capitalization of immense capital. The only
point of controversy is whether this shall De
done bv home capital or foreign. 1t would seem
that the matter of cheap fuel is SO imperative
as to make the question of who shall supply II
minor consideration. Since it can oe1 accom-
nlished onlv hv enormous capitalit ought not be q
matter of very great concern whether the own
ers of that capital happen to be citizens OF lndi-
ana or Ohio
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20

PHILADELPHIA is beginning already to real
ize the benefits of its new form Of govern
ment under which all executive power is
lodged in very few hands. For instance. in
the gas-works, which are now owned by the
city, the number of employees has been re-
duced 29S, in the water works seventy five
and in the street department fourteen. This
is practical reform, the results of which will
inure directly to the benefit of the people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20
theodore Triton in Paris.

Paris Letter in Pittsburg Dispatch
While calling on Mrs. Stanton, her old friend
,rbaodore T,lton came in He is witty and
laxative as ever. "What am dong at present.
Won ask Well, I am just now giving
tho last touches to a MANI script that
will eventually form my third volume OF
poems 1t will appear in due season. | always
carry one of my rhymes with ma, and in
a cafe, street car concert an Improvement
often occurs to me, which l make forthwith.
For instance, here is a ballad based on the
Magma Charta episode in English history l
have had it here in my pocket all winter. and IL
is now quite ready for the printer. Poetizing Is,
therefore one of my chief. and perhaps may
say one OF my most agreeable. occupations II
this beautiful and inspiring city"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20
Wilhelm Won Nyj,
Litterateur and Danseuse.

On the back of the card the Won Nyj arms
had been emblazoned with rubber stamp
Downstairs, near the dais of the night clerk,
stood gayly caparisoned yet cultivated cuss,
poring over late volume of the city directory.
He was .he author of these lines
Scarcely an hour had elapsed when tinted
octave page who waits on the Queen slid down
/. the stair-rail and told me that her Roya High
could change her dress
Later on I was ushered into the presence Of
Queen Kariolani, who was at the time accom-
panied by her suite and another gentleman
whose name did not learn.
She is dsting ushed- looking woman of mid
die age, but in apparent good health, and with
constitution which. think. would easily endure
. the fatigue of reignlHg over mucn larger coun-
try than her OVID.
AS 1 entered the room and made low, grow
cling obeisance. an act that IS wholly foreign
10 my nature, the Queen made rapid move
,nenr towards the bell. but held her oack ana
assured her that did not drink
3 We then chatted gayly for some time IN reia-
ton to the Sandwich business and court matters.
including the Sharp trial
For long time the Queen seemed constrained
and evidently could not think of anything to say,
but she soon saw that was not naughty or re-
served, and when at last she reluctantly showed
me out and locked the door, felt amply repaid
for the annoyance that one naturally feels on
visiting perfect stranger.
From what she said regarding her dynasty
gather that it consists of a covey OF half-grown
islands In the Pacific, inhabited by people
who we're once beniehted and carnivorous but
happy Now they are we'll informed and bill
ious. while they revel in suspenders and rum.
with all the blessings of late hours. civilization
and suicide.
The better classes of the Sandwich Islands
have the same customs which prevail here. and
the swallow-tail coat is quite prevalent there.
The low-neck and short-sleeve costume is even
carried to greater excess perhaps, and all opera
tickets read
----------------.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20
IT is said the Ohio Democrats have discov

IT is said the Ohio Democrats have discov-
cred that Mr. Cleveland is very popular among
the Democratic masses, and have, therefore,
decided to strongly indorse him in their plat
form, and nominate an administration man
for Governor. Thus it becomes more appar-
emit every day that Mr.. Cleveland will be re-
nominated. Though he falls far short of be-
ing great man, he is great enough to compel
the Democracy to knuckle down to him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20

THE ice pool says it costs dealers So. so ton
TO put up their ice it also declafes that it is
furnishing the commodity to the city at II IL
cents hundred pounds, or actual cost. As
this would be the first instance in the history
Of civilization where anything salable was
supplied to municipality at cost the public
will be somewhat slow to accept the statement
in its entirety-particularly as the fact is cas-
ually disclosed that profitable wholesale ship
ments are made at 81. 80 ton.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20

THE voice of the graduate is beginning to be
heard in the land, and the first piping solos will
soon be supplemented by the full ana resound-
ing chorus. Any whose stock of moral
sentiments and intellectual precepts has run low
can, by giving a little attention to the graduating
essay, easily lay in sufficient supply of the
neatest possible thoughts and axioms to last him
until next season. IL time is limited, he can
CLEAN inspiration from study of the subjects
around which these young minds hover.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20

ACCORDING to a cable special, Edinburgh
will present Mr.. Andrew Carnegie with the
freedom of the city during that American
citizens visit there this summer. 1t is not
likely that this intention will be altered by
Mr.. Carnegie's assurance to the New Workers
that he is really and truly an American citi-
zen and not an imitation Englishman.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20

WHAT the country now yearns to know IS
whether Jones. late of Florida, but more re-
Gently of Detroit, means to contest the SEN
atorial election which has just taken place in
the land of the alligators. 1t is understood
that in case he decides to do so, the ground
of his action will be that Legislature which
will take advantage of Senator's unavoidable
absence to elect another man in his place is a
v,aap thing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20

WHEN the indianapolis School Board learns
that the municipal authorities of Metz have
been ordered to use the German language IN
intercourse with the public, that body Will
wish IL could borrow some of Herr Bismarck's
mower for a while.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20

THE Consolidated Gas Company in Chicago
announces to the public that they are prepared
to make fve-year contracts for supply of
gas in streets in which their mains are laid at
the following rates: Ono dollar net per each
1000 cubic feet consumed, provided that the
company may increase the price to 81 net
per each 1000 cubic feet, but in no case shall
the price under the contracts exceed the latter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20

SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN has been invited
to address the Illinois Legislature on June
at an outdoor meeting in the capitol grounds
mt Springfield. The committees who have the
matter in hand are planning for an imposing
demonstration, and the chances are that Mr..
Sherman will say something interesting.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20
nuisance.

IT took just one month from the time the
dust question was first agitated III St. Louis
until an ordinance was passed directing the
work to be done by the city. ST. Louis is
not particularly enterprising town, but, ac-
cordine to present indications here, it is
months, not to say years, ahead OF lndianap-
oils in effecting such improvements.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20
sense.

ONE of the demands Of the striking brick
LAYERS Of Chicago was that payday should be
changed from Monday to Saturday The re
quest not being complied with, the men have
COMPROMISED on no payday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20

IT may be an indication of business boom to
have sidewalks obstructed and blockaded with
boxes, barrels and packages at all hours of the
day; but there is reason to believe that the thou
sands Of strangers who on Tuesday wendell their
precarious way up South Meridian street single
file would have been more favorably impressed
with the enterprise of the town had little more
attention been given to the comfort and convent
ence of the wayfarer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20

''WHAT's that thingg" was the wondering
inquiry of thousands Of visitors on Wednesday
as they passed by that remarkable structure
known as the transfer gar. Citizens were en-
abled to explain its character with less shame
facedness than usual, since they could add
that it had been proceeded against as public
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20

GREEN SMITHS friends have not attempted
TO defend or explain his overdrawing his sal
ary account So. The amount is not large,
but from the tenacity with which ne holds on
To II IL must look big to him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20
QUEEN OF THE CANNIBAL ISLANDS.

William Nye Vista Royalty from the Home
of the Ham Sandwich.
New York World.
The sun just slipping out the back door
OF the West and hunting for the timber of New
Jersey as Queen Kapioani, at her rooms IN the
Victoria HOTEL received plain. rectangular
card. printed in two kinds of ink at the owners
steam job Office. containing the following brief
but logical statement:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20

FLIPPANT press has been rebuked from time
to time for remarks derogatory to the legal pro-
fession but what is to be expected of an irrever-
emit newspaper when attorneyCi of thirty-two
wears experience rises in public 20 declare that
he s.would not give a hill of beans for lawyers
or;p;opsgr
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20

ONE of the Illinois Senators who had fisticuff
during the session on Wednesday apologized to
the Senate by saying he sorry the scene
occurred on the floor of the Senate. but was glad
that he hit the other fellow. His apology was
accented.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20

generous people, ready not only to forgive but
to forget, to let bygones bs bygoDes; but they
Southern man in the seat of the chief m agistrste
of the United States. Philadelphia Evening
Telepraph
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20

A MAN who undertakes to preach the gospel
on Boston Common is arrested and fined for
Dissertation of the sacred spot. Bostonans can't
bear to have the impression get out that the
heavenly kingdom contains any attractions su-
nerior in character to the Common.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20
English Politics.

Pittsburg Chronicle.
CORRESPONDENT writes to ask what the lead
inc questions in English politics Sonny.
there is no English politics The only English
notifies is Irish politics.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-20

SOME Of our curious people seem to have
an idea that the fire" and police" calls on
the District telegraph boxes are only for
show This is lack Of knowledge on their